'Star Wars' inspired 9/11 terrorists, says Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood, author of dystopian classics The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake, is widely considered one of the world’s greatest living novelists. She is not, however, considered the world’s greatest movie critic. 

That much became clear Tuesday after Atwood attempted to draw a connection between the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and … the plot of the original 1977 Star Wars? 

As part of a Variety interview on The Handmaid’s Tale, now an award-winning Hulu show, Atwood recalled an operatic adaptation of the book in 2000 that showed eerily prescient scenes of the Twin Towers exploding.  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | 'Star Wars' inspired 9/11 terrorists, says Margaret Atwood